98 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXVII, 



COPE, 1891, 1898. 



'Syllabus of Lectures on Geology and Paleontology,' Parts III- IV. Publ. 



Univ. Penn. 



This classification was Cope's final attempt to ex|Dress the taxonoraic 

 relationships of all the recent and fossil orders. The chief innovations, as 

 compared with earlier classifications, are the orders "Bunotheria," "Ancy- 

 lopoda, " "Taxeopoda," "Ambhpoda," "Diplarthra." These no doubt 

 served at the time to emphasize certain resemblances and differences, but at 

 present it seems probable that, with the exception of the Ambhi^oda, they 

 are largely unnatural assemblages. The association of the Primates with 

 the Hyracoidea, Litopterna and Condylarthra has not been confirmed by 

 subsequent research, and now it even appears likely (p. 400), that the Peris- 

 sodactyla and Artiodactyla are by no means so nearly related as to justify 

 their union in a single order. The " Ancylopoda," classed by Cope with the 

 Unguiculata, are very probably only aberrant Perissodactyls (p. 397). 



Cope's Classification of 1891 and 1S98. 



(Abridged from the 'Syllabus'.) 



Prototheria [Gill 1872]. 



Order Protodonta [Osborn]. 

 " Multituberculata [Cope]. 

 " Monotremata [cf., Geoffroy]. 

 Eutheria [Gill 1872]. 



I. Didelphia [de Blainville] Marsupialia [Illiger]. 

 Suborder Polyprotodontia [Owen]. 

 " Diprotodontia [Owen]. 



II. Monodelphia [de Blainville]. 

 Mutilata [Owen]. 



Order Cetacea [auct.]. 



Suborder Archseoceti [? Flower, cf. Zeuglodontes Gill] 

 " Odontoceti [cf. Gray]. 

 " Mystacoceti [cf. Gray]. 

 Order Sirenia [Illiger]. 

 Unguiculata [Linnseus]. 



Order Edentata [Vicq d'Azyr]. 

 " Glires [Linn.]. 



Suborder Hystricomorpha [Brandt]. 

 " Sciuromorpha [Brandt]. 

 " Myomorpha [Brandt]. 

 " Lagomorpha [Brandt]. 

 Order Chiroptera [Blumenbach]. 

 Suborder Animalivora [Gill]. 

 " Frugivora [Gill]. 



